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Unlike Boxing, Karate, Judo, Aikido or Kalari which require years of training to acquire reasonable confidence, Krav Maga prepares you in a short duration for street reality.
Classes are at various locations for Civilians, Police commandos, Security. We conduct workshops on Personal safety.
SreeRam is the recognized Instructor for IKMF (International KravMaga Federation).@ Chennai. Call 934 000 66 00

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Are women safe on the Indian streets? The ugly truth revealed by statistics. (1 of 5 on Sexual Harassment)

After the Guwahati incident, wherein a girl was sexually molested
by around 30 men, I have been getting calls from concerned parents and IT/BPO companies
which employ women; all enquiring about
self-defense courses. Suddenly here was
an ugly reminder of the safety of women on Indian streets.

“Oh..come on..it’s the same all over the
world. .tell me..if the girl is walking outside a bar at that time, what does
she expect?!” shrugged one middle
aged man, while another waved the whole the thing away with a generic dismissal , “She is a victim of the angrezi pub culture”But the truth is more ugly and accurate, as these facts below point out.

The security of woman in India is amongst the lowest,
globally ( Source - http://www.womanstats.org)

The more startling fact is, even war-torn Somalia is rated a
better country in terms of safety of women! India is at the bottom 4 along with
Afghanistan, Congo and Pakistan. (Source -www.trust.org)

crime against women statistics - G20 countries - India low at 19

In India , Andhra and Bengal seem to be the worst states for
woman. All the inference drawn below are based on published reports of NCRB on “Crime
against women”

A quick look of the molestation and eve-teasing statistics of
the top metros, reveal Chennai is comparatively a safer city for women.

Molestation & Eve- teasing - Indian metros - statistics

In total numbers, the predictable bad-boy is of course Delhi, followed by
Mumbai. But the ugly story is revealed
in the smaller cities like Bhopal, Indore, Lucknow and especially Vijayawada.
What’s wrong with small town India?!

The summary of the pathetic India story on “crime against
women” is captured by the graph below.
In 10 years since 2000, the total incidents of crime has grown 50 fold! If one
tries to blame this on the burgeoning population, its futile; because the figure
on the rate of crime against woman (number of incidents in a lakh of population)
also shows a steady upward slant. 30 times increase in 10 years!

Today Crime against women cases form 10% of the total IPC cases in India !

Crime against women increasing in India

What is to be done to improve the safety of Indian women?
I am not a social scientist to understand the implications and extrapolate on the
catalysts of this trend of Crime against women in India. But there is no
ambiguity in the simple fact that security of women in India is abysmal.
This ‘crime against woman ‘situation cannot be improved in a short duration;
due to various cultural, economic and social factors. Like the ingrained patriarchal
mind-set, the economic dependency, increasing alcohol consumption, wave of
migrant labourers in big cities, the clash of cultural values due to a media
explosion within 2 decades. The list can go on.

Education is better than Policing for “crime against women”
I feel the change will be more enduring if it’s inculcated from bottom up. Values
and social mores are imbibed at an early age. It’s very tough to change social values after
a certain age.
Policing and law-enforcement can at the best act as deterrents. But their
resources are already stretched thin. The best bet is education. If the man vs
woman equations are spelt out clearly at a very young age, probably in 2 or 3
generation cycles we can see a significant change is the safety of women on the
Indian streets.

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SreeRam is a KravMaga self-defence instructor at Chennai, South India. He teaches Civilians, Chennai City Police and Security.

SreeRam has started W.A.H.R (Women against harassment & Rape) an NGO devoted to increase personal safety awareness amongst women and equip them to handle sexual harassment at public and work places.SreeRam conducts KravMaga personal safety and self-defense workshops at corporates, especially IT/BPO companies where many women work late. He has also conducted workshops, for rural women.On 8th March 2012 ( International Women's Day) KravMaga SreeRam released a small handy booklet for women titled " 10A-s of Personal Safety for Women"

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